First Anniversary of Sandy Marked in the Northeast

10/29/2013 12:00PM

A look at how real estate has changed since Sandy and the families who are still picking up the pieces, plus the return of tableside service, how to avoid being pigeonholed at work, and more. Photo: Adrienne Grunwald for The Wall Street Journal.

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... I ... last October superstorm Sandy swept to the east coast killing a hundred and forty seven people and damaging or destroying six hundred and fifty thousand houses appointed a National weather service ... the Wall Street Journal cover the storm and its aftermath of the fire that swept the breezy point Queens ... destroyed hundreds of houses to the effect of the storm ... of close knit waterfront communities out one year later ... families they are still picking up the pieces is Tuesday October twenty nine ... welcome to lunch break I'm Wendy downs when your reporters Jackie Bish off ... Joshua Dawsey the visit some of the areas affected ... looking at how the storm has ups upended the lives ... and we'll stay ... it's ... now you have these big huge McMansions that will obviously change the character and humor ... opportunity lies of course in the new purchase these properties now at a discounted price ... and be able to build something that you want ... as opposed to having ... accepted something that was already there ... Jace Jacky think semester being here mean you guys have seen a lot being out there needed fondness for your mean just describe what a neighborhood like or the beach looks like ... now compared to a year ago chore ... still the ground zero of destruction in some places are normally Beach streets are so close ... the entire beaches were reopened and at ... some places the boardwalk ... this dying to be open until next summer I aam ... they're a lot of people what are we that still at the story ... top or over homes and ... given that it wouldn't reveal the ... pain of ripple effect of this is just just a gain in on the city I go out to long Beach to visit a friend of mine there they're still small businesses ... they can reopen makes didn't have insurance they'd ever they'd never thought the water was going to get that far and ... you also check on the prices of insights that an island and the Rockaway is what you find a job ... in the Rockaway is of ... the year Mr. the sense that ... the board while may not be back for two summers now a lot of the people ... have abandoned their homes and the boys and walk away from Staten Island ... I'm it's given uneven recovery in the euro neighborhoods in some places we went to the storm never came out and ... you know if you ... if you can lingering effects but ... bitter places with which it was just yesterday ... in Czech EU is this and families out there we interviewed for stories the year-ago wan was Mark Ott is a city bus mechanic ... high in Broad Channel Queens what happened to him at the storm ... and while it is during the summer when you read it was nice to break down ... the thing which is when you've done this time on into the water runs off and ... climbed up a fight that had won the event of the dot com and get it right it's the middle of an intersection in each day ... to avoid it from hitting his time and ... he actually did not get a substantial than in two different aside from Payson and the loss was told that if they think that ... for a lot of these communities that Brady is that you'll trauma ... it with the storm and all that tried to be dedicated on that night ... and the shop the day off debt ... now it's trying to figure out should stay right sibling Greek both Chiquita and had a lot of heroism on that day in the days following the shoot went out of that sexy stuffed mark recently let's hear from him now ... when you hear the warnings I mean it was a portion of the map and one on ... the chorus of inches of our also made there are about to go off on it that this would of been destroyed breezy point in time so close to total war was over my lectures so what ... why would burn ... down that way when I go ... the mite Institute for its next level sixty five ... I think that ... gold ... here talk about it we we use this word recovery a lot right in any recovery process is still to be going on for years for some of these people I knew ticket he had to be sure how we built a business ... and the frustration just guilt and of ... YouTube may take to get funding to do that curious ... Jackie what you think that cover this now for twelve months what the most difficult aspect of it to the families that you've been following ... this ... there are so many different aspects in an ... exhaustive be tilted NetApp they did in the smoky smell I think that that means it's it's been pretty high in some of its meetings have been made to ... pay ... one penny respecting and see what the contestants that at the beest ah com ... recession Yelp ... Bay and had been a since nine ... nineteen twenty ... and they've really had to take the decision of some weak ... results when they seem to bring this insurance and time for flood insurance ... to the tribe a sum of its immediacy for a great guy and that is a ... place that it's really great people the last twelve months and free tough ... job in just a nasty just as good as images of sticking my mind but the hours of standard a move to the streets trying to get back to the beach boardwalk cheese crumbled ... boats in the middle of ... what what even just a quick even those finance ... he did ... the poignant portrait of people who are coming back to their homes in the immediate aftermath of the storm and didn't know what to expect and ... saw the total devastation I mean ... when you saw some of those people after the storm when they came back to their communities for the first time ... and they cannot grappled with what they reported to have to face over the next two years ... some of those people and I still think about them sometimes I wonder how they're doing and and what's next for them because ... it's a ... it's Achillion trouble but I can imagine facing ... as some of the stories we can find it has been falling here on WS J dot com slashed CNY for greater New York ... thank you so much for sharing that this morning are subject to everybody ... was affected by that year it that thank you so much thinking ... I ... an apology this morning over the rollout of the federal health insurance exchanges from Uno the administration official in charge of the site's launch promising ... it can and will be fixed ... in testimony before House lawmakers take a listen ... it's ... you're saying ... the system right now is working I'm saying is working this is not working at this be that we want and at the success rate everyone and this is that things were working on ... you can fall our continuing coverage of the testimony on WS J dot com when we come back ... some happy and is a forty ounce at a state ... is impressive no matter how you slice and dice it but it's practically ... either way is carved wall stable side ... wall restaurants taking cooking of the kitchen ... and making presentations right for the gas will be joined by one famous New York chef at our Pursell Journal team in just thirty seconds ... sae ... a forty ounce cuz stake is impressive no matter how you slice and dice it but it is practically Peter when this card Walt a hillside ... well the straws are taking cookies out of the kitchen making elaborate presents a sianz ... right in front of dinner guests Joinus now smart versus a news editor for The Wall Street Journal ... who worked on the story and staff Michael him on how ... the New York State restaurant Porter house think semester but the convenient ... I have to start with you in your dock because you've easily turn dog recent Asian into a Broadway show ... what you do ... you know that's actually really good ... point each of these children one of the show ... and it's going at it had gone out of fashion ... but I think that it's going right for re timetable site service ... is a way to really ... of ... really seem ... to take care begets to do more for them ... and you know this is what we're trying to do so this is the thought that we roasted and we ... hope the card table so I finished it'll suck but it's also kind of a tricky thing ... we can abuse them all ... he called the doc press got pressed ... juices out all of the bones the puppet of the last of the juices of the bonds to finish the sauce outlets an eight hundred and five ... the updated really a classic dish that doing all right the table and yes canvas in the reporting a lot of other restaurants that I think in this in some way for ... us ... at a Brooklyn restaurant in Lisburn the food that they're ... smoking oysters and people site using ... something called him on ... the twenty ... oh the dollar campaign and a ... latency collecting smoking a glass chamber I'm told how words can you put the boys it's a great man and they absorbed the smoke and smoke was to re write it a but you know Michael would you do things like this I mean ... BP course were forced to pay attention to what you doing ... I wonder I'd you know people in the past thought about this contest up conversations key to picking the people picking shoes like ... a business and wants maybe not yet not not business lunch was certainly dinner you know there's room for him people are so interested in food and cooking ... best nominee ... could bring some of the data the kitchen to the table it's really it's appropriate that this time it's really ... I think people are stupid and so one thing that we try to do ... is we have you know we have to adopt that wooden table side you would do with Sal and and to some beef carping ... we've also streamlined and maybe more efficient in in terms of using the guest on ... you know and the old that you can kind of the older style I really was time consuming but weak streamlining the dishes so that ... you can ... get back to the fact ... that aren't exactly at the end the pricing of this I mean I can ask is that just hit a scam someone cuts that will come at premiums can restaurants in general and well what ... a premium of fighting they're moving a lot more the Viet Steakhouse in Portland Oregon um that they are bringing out they think which are they on the premise that some ... and they bring the ... the Ron states to stable Citing karma this fourteen inch rib eye steak rain and the chef told us he moves ... through an entire eight hundred pound animal that some radio in a week ... good stood up a deal that space but one of the things is that these also premium progress ... and you know we might do a roast prime rib for instance and it's Friday each Friday beef ... human onesies roasts and more ... everything has become very Porsche oriented ... and I cooked a portion for you or you ... will will we make Oberoi students carved table sign something special about that ... for two people sharing this don't for instance ... or something really special about it's a very particular thought that the news that St ... you know kind of vague astronomically has agreed to of ... of ... of profile a great resume them ... the Apple II in and more people watch on and on that I'm a bit less were here I'd I'd do some things you just dont ... wanna see preparing were tables boring like ... I'm over the guacamole things that I'd I'd I know what it looks like the present Oppenheimer is so ... authentic enough in awe right so this is what we also have to give it to give some kudos to this that the met or ... level of service in this country has really gotten so much better ... than the zoo professionals in the dining room now ... and they're able to do this work that once they didn't do so is the one you can ... bet I'll ... have left market and oil drizzled on section tomorrow thanks be with you ... is it possible to be too loyal to your boss for The Wall Street Journal's Work and Family columnist ... Sue Shellenbarger she is investigating solutions to help you ... break out of behavior writes that maybe actually hurting due to work and she joins us right now but Lisa Gable the head of the foundation helps one the key employees overhaul from leadership skills welcome to both of you ... still wanna start with you ... what it means to be pigeon holed per se at work ... it's just a piece that it's our position it's going to the beach that Shell ... isn't his bosses did this to people and say oh I don't think he or she can do about ... it since we do it ourselves by seeing ourselves in a limited way ... we can move on Ortiz chaos ... is a new faces in your own workplace you had one employee who actually he was being too loyal to you and was inadvertently ... helping your ability to run your foundation what was happening ... all basically we can and it's all their issues to being in a support staff station sch and really as I expected to sue ... them for her to ... looking out the curtain and actually at the scene in the written as a key leader of the conversation ... ever by a change direction in any way ... as ideas presented as for ... incentives must take it from David's point to point B you brought in a workplace coyote what specifically did she teach this particular individual ... to do to help mitigate some of these issues ... I cant ... that cool as to learn when you have the opportunity to speak to state your position to speak with facts ... very confident in positions that European foreign sch ended at the defers your boss all the time the questions are asked that instead confident that you have the answers and it is ok in actually ... need and desire to chase the captaincy his positions and see what I found so interesting about this is there were very tangible little things that this workplace consultant pointed out like ... I can make sure your big toes are pointed toward someone you speak to them so that your body is squared ... up again and over prep some time so that when you going to mean Gates's rolling things off your time ... are there any general guidelines out there ... I wonder that people can follow ... to recognize and start fixing ... their behavior right ... they did have a policy forbids the cultures will mention you want to seeking user feedback from colleagues ... it is ... taken off the workplace and say and really like to find out what to do better ... in many cases is is learning how to speak ... clearly ... being more aware of your non verbal signals are seeing eye contact is very important is crucial ears ... just me focusing ... on ... what you need to do for a project to get it done ... many times he can get help from co workers that you not fortunate typical Ch ... the final word to you because you had such a successful go of it here and that this employer even discussing ... has become such a key part of your leadership ... strategy ... top executives out there recognize ... employees who actually ... might have been pigeonhole the company would you advise them ... it didn't take a look at this ranch inch seam with their special skill sets are sch and it looked pretty areas for the need to create a really the Sundance ... people have a unique talent that's when you when Ingrid and talent that in the same time as it has to go in and hire new people look at this leaders on your team which a finance skills that you can help to tell us that they can do that next level ... I get advice from a refinance even more and see Shellenbarger work and family column tomorrow that's in the Pursell Journal section ... when we come back and to pay sixteen hundred dollars ... for a pumpkin seed ... when you mind if you're one to grow in record breaking size aam and one that can bring in tens of thousands of dollars ... in prizemoney at Big Spender ... segment ... that's up next ... Tce ... would you pay sixteen hundred dollars for ... a punk is seeing ... what you might be one to crawl record breaking size pumpkin and one they can earn you tens of thousands of dollars ... in prize money just in time for Halloween I've expanded Thomas MarketWatch ... Charles Passy ... has been sussing out the details ... are right when we're kind of price size pumpkin like ... how big is big ... well they just ... broke the two thousand pound mark ... it was last year and this year this is yet another record ... with a little but like two thousand and thirteen pounds so we're ... we're talking great pumpkins and great prize money do I look in every into thirty granted for that that latest yet I mean ... the ... pumpkin growing has become a legitimate sport the new house a lot of its content is said that you know I said I'm I'm not denying the enemy and I'm very proud of sauce this out I mean it's it's that were talking ... many contests local chapters and he can be a few hundred dollars but it can be up to thirty thousand dollars ... aam but yet to put a lot to get a lot into it ... both monetarily and physically to get a pumpkin that will get a physical sign just a minute but let's start with the monetary and this scene which I've seen pumpkin seeds in oh about their kind at this big ... sixteen hundred hours of where does that come from well he comes from guess what the prize winning pumpkin ... on in this case the sixteen under Dollar seed I came from a pumpkin that was a record breaker at the time the two hundred pounds it was three years ago ... and it yielded only something like twenty six seeds so that already put a premium ... everybody who grows these giant pumpkins wants to get their hands on the seeds because ... the ATO is a obviously it's a good breeding stock basically so however China investment in the sixteen hundred are saying well now there's no guarantee they will get ... any has a lot of work and writing I've been spots and you can to sleep you could just receiving ravaging the sunlight that have common of all sorts of things right and and and and the guys and it is mostly got to do this on taking very seriously so yes they are ... so ... they are looking for more than they put together Specialty compounds ... they have special ... aam breeding techniques the good ground fingers all sorts of work involved ... and and it takes months ... and even then a lot of is just plain lucky the weather is with you pray it's not then you may not get to that which level you want the next male bragging rights watch confiscated in your pop Arike by ... ministers to manage ... Denee distance can um I don't know the the the the the thing about it is I thought I would start ... poking around this her final case of the real prices can be like uh hundred dollars ... for a great seat ... in fact many of its European growers will give away seeds from ... maybe not the two thousand pound pumpkin Buchman in all likelihood seven hundred pound bomb ... don't give away the seeds for free ... because a ... aam if you're not enough to be in this community they are happy to have you as a member of the club ... and he aam they're trying to improve the reputation so if they if they can show that their seat ... on guild's great pumpkins it reflects on the reputation as a grower so in many instances they're happy to give you the seeds for free if he joins pumpkin associations pumpkin clubs ... in some instances you up to pay but generally we're talking more like ... five to twenty five dollars for a championships he doesn't see fit to go for a few hundred and sixteen hundred at the Al carvings on in three days ... yet oddly an enormous night Nareit were done with them on Lunch Break that's it for today OpinionJournal without that